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Roxy
Canada753 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:45 zyzski wrote: any chance of protoss getting an earlier defensive structure of some sort? spawning pool -> sunken barracks -> bunker gateway -> ??? Ya, i want nexus upgradable to have a tesla coil on it. :D +dmg vs bio | ||
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Junichi
Germany1056 Posts
Terran (to me) is the "forgiving race", a lot of mistakes you make, you are forgiven and can fix them: Forgot to build workers? MULE's! Forgot to throw MULE's on time? Doesn't matter, their "effect" stacks up to a ridiculous amount. Built to little production facilities which can produce basic units? Doesn't matter, just switch those you have to reactors and pump away. Forgot to build supply depots? Supply drop. Built CC one square off? Lift + Land, fixed. Not able to get into the enemy base, because they denied scouting by land / air? Scan! Killed the enemy airforce? Land your vikings and still do a lot of good damage. Those are mechanics which the other races (largely) do not have, which forgive mistakes in terran play. Was this intentional, or did they just add them one by one unnoticing how little this punishes mistakes in the play? Oh and another question: In BW marines by far did not stack as much as they do in SC2, due to better pathing and so on. Thus in BW not so many marines could shoot at the same target at the same time. Is the DPS of the marine ball in SC2 maybe too high, because of this or do they feel everything is allright with the marine (DPS, cost (buildtime, minerals + supply))? | ||
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Micket
United Kingdom2163 Posts
Through the history of Starcraft, it is clear that no matter how hard you try at balancing, the game at the top level will always converge to a small set of unique strategies, with the others being unviable. But in Starcraft 2, you have tried to give multiple options, especially to Terran, which in my opinion has made Terran too versatile. Do you feel this design decision has given you a headache on how to balance the game? For example, for air and mech to be comparable to bio, you have to have units which are comparable to marines. This has lead to tanks and banshees to be absolutely awesome. Hence, we are left with the 1/1/1 all in which beats Protoss 80% of the time, and is a nightmare to fix with a patch. | ||
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aRRoSC2
Denmark241 Posts
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:50 aRRoSC2 wrote: being the only race with a caster (infestor) being completely useless without energy + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081125031431/starcraft/images/c/c6/HighTemplar_SC2_Head1.jpg) High templar is not amused. | ||
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Roxy
Canada753 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:50 Fanatic-Templar wrote: Why do Marines have 5 more hit points than they did in Brood War? Because that is th only logical thing to do after reducing zealot and zergling damage | ||
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Loes
Canada115 Posts
I miss this so much | ||
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Roxy
Canada753 Posts
Ya man, I duno what hes thinking Raven Mothership loses to like.. 6 rines im pretty sure.. even with energy Sentry wet noodle attack causing you problems? Only caster that IS good without energy is ghost He may have been under the assumption that HT can morph into archon and be ready after the battle is over? | ||
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Roxy
Canada753 Posts
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:54 Roxy wrote: Ya man, I duno what hes thinking Raven Mothership loses to like.. 6 rines im pretty sure.. even with energy Sentry wet noodle attack causing you problems? Only caster that IS good without energy is ghost He may have been under the assumption that HT can morph into archon and be ready after the battle is over? And then be killed by 4 marauders, which leaves you without two HTs and an archon. | ||
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minimalistic
Hungary157 Posts
On October 20 2011 23:38 Sanchonator wrote: why are ghosts still in this game? Well to remove them you just have to remove the storyline of the Starcraft lore. Does the name Kerrigan rings a bell for you my friend? (and this is Dustins's answer)  | ||
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RogerChillingworth
Chad3103 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:39 Demonhunter04 wrote: The excitement was seeing if the plague would land or not, or if vessels would Irradiate the defiler in time. And of course the plagued player would retreat that portion of his army. It's not like fungal which just roots you in place at least. yeah. I'm really not a fan of a lot of these spell choices, especially given smart cast. Fungal is an example of a spell that was given to zerg and then buffed because of the lack of dps, and no real splash. But instant cast shit that's really easy to land brings the skill ceiling way down and hurts the game. It was a lot better when fungal was more of a snare, but instead of increasing dps elsewhere they decided to make fungal that change. Forcefields could also be a lot more dynamic instead of protecting a poop gateway army that's only protecting the heavy hitters anyway. Just flawed design on both fronts. The problem isn't smart-cast (it's never going to be changed anyway), it's the spells themselves. Fungal/forcefield are the biggest issues in this department, since they're in the game to put tape over serious wounds that need to be addressed in smarter ways. Maybe come up with a question or two about this problem? | ||
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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TedJustice
Canada1324 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:26 Hypatio wrote: When will blizzard get rid of the horrid popularity contest for custom maps? This. I'm wondering if they even see a problem with it or not and if maybe they can give a rundown of what they see wrong with it, and how they would fix it. | ||
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Msr
Korea (South)495 Posts
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DeadBull
421 Posts
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
In Wings of Liberty, a decision was made to omit attack animations from casted spells (excepting the infested terran). One PTR tested fungal having an animation, but it was not implemented. What was the reasoning behind this decision? Was it mainly lag/lack of LAN latencty, or were there other reasons? Many fans feel that a lack of spell animations (EMP/Fungal/etc) is bad for two reasons: 1 - It's confusing for new spectators since they don't know who is doing what 2 - It reduces the excitement when a spell successfully lands because a. It's too easy to anticipate/micro a spell to land and thus it happens often and is not exciting b. Because it is easy to land, the spell's power must be nerfed, making it less exciting even when damage is maximized. In light of this reasoning, would you consider giving spells animations in the 'final' version of professional, spectated SC2? Why or why not? | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On October 21 2011 03:02 DeadBull wrote: Are you going to work faster on the balance changes? Or take you time and let the players work it out? | ||
Whitewing
United States7483 Posts
On October 21 2011 02:57 minimalistic wrote: Well to remove them you just have to remove the storyline of the Starcraft lore. Does the name Kerrigan rings a bell for you my friend? (and this is Dustins's answer) You could just deus ex machina them like they do everything else. "Mengsk got tired of ghosts betraying him and deleted all of the training information on how to train them, and had all of the ghosts that work for him executed/imprisoned." | ||
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